Odd Avatar Issue - 14 years ago

Hi Tom, I was unable to upload an avatar image using Safari 5.0.2 for Windows. The same image uploaded correctly in Firefox. When I tried to upload in Safari, after selecting an image but before clicking Save it would often jump to the front page of the Macedition forums. Other times, it would go to the front page of my Control Center. In either case, the image was not uploaded. This isn't

Sig line screwed up? - 16 years ago

Suddenly, my .sig line is showing me gibberish instead of quotation marks in Safari 3.1.1. I didn't change any local settings. Are other people seeing it, or is it local to me? Huh. No sig in this forum. Look at my posts over in the Spork thread.

Re: It's in the news. - 16 years ago

Typo in iPhone trojan article: "For the mast majority of people"

Re: It's in the news. - 16 years ago

Ummm.. "Piss OFF hackers," not "Piss OF hackers." Article headline about new iPhone firmware update coming.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

The problems seems completely fixed, Tom. Thanks!

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Yes, that post went through in about three seconds; would have been 25 before.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

It does seem much faster. Not as fast as I would think it ought to be, but a definite improvement. I will try to test objectively.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

When I'm home, I'll look for you. Everything works fine at work. Well, except for me.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Sigh.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Will do.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Sorry, Tom. No scientific tests conducted. Last night page loads seemed faster, but not by much. I'd still click the read flag and then go read some other site until I felt like seeing if the page had loaded.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

I'll try when I'm home.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

It's that 72.31.0.94 machine, I'll bet. Oh, well, prepare to hear less from me.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Safari Mac is similarly slow on the same machine. Haven't tried Firefox Mac. Firefox Windows from work is fine, so it is something about my route from home.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

And now a proper traceroute from the same machine running Mac OS X 10.5.1: I had to kill it after a while, since it seemingly had no end! Traceroute has started ... traceroute to new.macedition.com (71.41.34.117), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 7.028 ms 0.869 ms 1.235 ms 2 10.234.0.1 (10.234.0.1) 6.314 ms 6.787 ms 8.703 ms 3 66-214-102-21.static.reno.nv.ch

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Firefox is slow, too. The error log has a lot of "Expected declaration but fount '!'. Skipped to next declaration. http://new.macedition.com/forums/css.php?0,css" lines. Also: "Unknown property '-webkit-border-top-left-radius'. Declaration dropped." "Unknown property '-webkit-border-top-right-radius'. Declaration dropped." "Unknown property 'word-wrap'. Declaration dropped."

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Looks like step 2 is a 98% packet loss. That doesn't impact anything else I do. Ouch. Since it happens for both oldspork and newspork, and only the latter is slow, I may write that off to a Windows oddity, outside my problem.

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

C:\Documents and Settings\John Willoughby>pathping new.macedition.com Tracing route to new.macedition.com [71.41.34.117] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 WinXPsp2.nv.charter.com [192.168.1.2] 1 192.168.1.1 2 10.234.0.1 3 66-214-102-21.static.reno.nv.charter.com [66.214.102.21] 4 66-214-102-34.static.reno.nv.charter.com [66.214.102.34] 5 66-214-102-90.static.reno.nv.charter.com [

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

C:\Documents and Settings\John Willoughby>pathping spork.macedition.com Tracing route to spork.macedition.com [71.41.34.117] over a maximum of 30 hops: 0 WinXPsp2.nv.charter.com [192.168.1.2] 1 192.168.1.1 2 10.234.0.1 3 66-214-102-21.static.reno.nv.charter.com [66.214.102.21] 4 66-214-102-34.static.reno.nv.charter.com [66.214.102.34] 5 66-214-102-90.static.reno.nv.charter.c

Re: Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Old Spork is fine. I should also add that the top page of the Spork section loads normally; it's just the topics that are slow. I'm on Windows now, so I'll run a pathping which seems analagous to traceroute and will post times here.

Slow-Loading Pages, Redux - 16 years ago

Tom, the situation got better for that evening, but I am routinely hitting 20-30 second page loads in the Spork Template area again. It seems slow here, too, but I haven't tried enough pages outside the Spork area. It is virtually every page I try; I might even say every page. It makes using the new forum agonizing. I click a link, then switch to another tab to do something else on the web an

Re: Hard link to Original Spork Archive - 16 years ago

Could we also make sure that a big, vivid link on the Elder Sporke Boardes directs people here? Just in case any of our old-timers decides to stop by again, and doesn't feel like digging to find out where we've fled.

Re: Crashing with Safari 3.03 For Windows - 16 years ago

Works okay with Safari 3.0.4 for Windows. Some odd hangs loading threads that a cancel-then-refresh usually fix. That may not be browser-specific.

Crashing with Safari 3.03 For Windows - 16 years ago

I think there's an upgrade that I'll download, but Safari on Windows 3.0.3 crashes pretty consistently, at least with the Spork Template up.

Re: More bewbies, please - 16 years ago

Are we talking Sporker mits here? I don't think that's a good way to go. (Though I'd "win.")

Re: Slow-loading Pages - 16 years ago

It seems to be better, now. Much better. Thanks, Tom.

Slow-loading Pages - 16 years ago

Currently, Firefox on Windows is taking up to 25 seconds to load a page. I'm really hoping that this changes when things go live.

Following Every Topic by Default - 16 years ago

Is there a way to default to following every topic unless I say otherwise? If I have to scan each board every day for what's new, I'll miss a lot. Also, this board is currently very slow for me.